The GJM has extended its support to the Trinamul Congress-led government in the state. Even the GJM has offered to sit on the treasury benches to show solidarity to the government. GJM president Bimal Gurung will meet

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee failed to make the Tata Motors’ agreement with the state government over Singur project public on Thursday due to legal complications. On Wednesday, the chief minister had announced that the entire agreement on the Nano project (now abandoned) at Singur would be shared with the

For the first time in 34 years, the Left Front on Friday elected Suryakanta Mishra as the leader of Opposition in the West Bengal Assembly.

Defying diktat of the party mandarins not to criticise the party line in public, former state land and land reforms minister and state committee member of the Marxist party Abdur Rezzak Mollah on Wednesday fired another salvo against the party satraps.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee will hold a meeting with Union finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday to discuss the financial condition of the state government. This proposed meeting assumes significance as the Congress and the Trinamul Congress have alleged that the earlier Left Front government has made the state bankrupt.

West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee on Thursday paid an unscheduled ten minute visit to state-run Bangur Institute of Neurology here on her way to the office at writers' buildings.

A court here on Thursday exempted Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leader Gautam Deb from personal appearance in a criminal defamation case

In a bid to revive the higher education system, new state higher education minister Bratya Basu asserted that higher education would be made free from political influence and even a search committee would be constituted to look into the appointments made by the previous Left Front government.

The impasse over the construction of the Joka-BBD Bag proposed Metro rail connection was resolved on Tuesday after the state transport department gave its NOC (no objection certificate) to the Railway ministry to implement the project. The construction work will resume on Wednesday.

A constable of the National Volunteer Force (NVF) was shot to death by his colleague at Deganga in North 24 Parganas. The murder took place on Monday late night during a verbal altercation between them at the Hamadama NVF camp.